environmental review, and the City of Brisbane will follow CEQA guidelines to determine the appropriate form of environmental documentation, ranging from use of the original Program EIR to preparation of a new, project-level EIR. To clarify this, the text beginning in the final paragraph on page 3-77 of the Draft EIR is revised to read as follow.

Section 15168 of the CEQA Guidelines defines a program EIR as an EIR that may be prepared on a series of actions that can be characterized as one large project and are related either (1) geographically; (2) as logical parts in the chain of contemplated actions; (3) in connection with issuance of rules, regulations, plans, or other general criteria to govern the conduct of a continuing program; or (4) as individual activities carried out under the same authorizing statutory or regulatory authority and having generally similar environmental effects that can be mitigated in similar ways. Insofar as the components of the Project Site development, as approved, would include a plan and policy framework that would govern future development within a discrete geographic area within Brisbane (and an adjacent portion of San Francisco and other offsite infrastructure locations), such a program-level approach is considered appropriate. The specific impacts of all Ffuture projects that would fall within the purview of this program-level analysis would be evaluated in light of the program EIR to determine whether the appropriate form of environmental analysis their implementation would require subsequent or supplemental environmental analysis. Additional CEQA compliance documents for specific projects or components proposed under the selected Concept Plan scenario would be required where site-specific impacts of the development proposal(s) were not addressed at a sufficient level of detail in this program EIR, or in the event subsequent changes are proposed to the selected scenario that were not analyzed in this EIR. This includes those proposed actions over which other agencies have approval authority, such as the proposed remedial actions overseen by the RWQCB, the San Mateo County Health Agency, and DTSC; the water supply transfer by OID, MID and SFPUC; and the Recology expansion requiring permits from San Francisco. The approval of these actions would rely upon the analysis presented in this EIR, provided that the information related to such actions that is analyzed herein is sufficient and remains current.

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[See page 5-606 for the original comment] The comment inaccurately asserts the Draft EIR “combines a Program EIR with a project analysis.” The Brisbane Baylands Draft EIR is identified as a Program EIR, and does not purport to provide project-level analyses. The Draft EIR analyzes the various components of the Baylands program at a level of detail commensurate with the detail available to describe each component.